Terence Nance
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 10, 1982 (43 years old)
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" (2012), and as the creator of the avant-garde TV program "Random Acts of Flyness" (2018), which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO. Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while they interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles. Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art. Nance's 2012 film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score. It premiered in the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier section in 2012 and was also screened as part of the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. Scholar Terri Francis has described it as "...an experimental film...that recreates the unspoken space amid friendship and relationships". Starring Terence Nance himself and the girl with whom he is caught up in this difficult dance, the film shifts between reconstruction and reimagining using both animation and live action. The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015. In August 2018, Nance's TV series "Random Acts of Flyness" debuted on HBO. In September 2018, Nance was announced as the director of the sequel of Space Jam, produced by Ryan Coogler. On July 16, 2019, it was announced that Nance left the project because he and "the studio/producers had different takes on the creative vision for Space Jam: A New Legacy", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits. Nance also composes and performs music under the alias "Terence Etc.", composing some of the music for his "Random Acts of Flyness" series and releasing his debut EP "Things I Never Had" in January 2020. His debut full-length album "V O R T E X" was released on August 19, 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.
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Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
18 Black Girls and Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $9 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Writer
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2019
Actor
Guisado on Sunset
Director
Earl Sweatshirt - Nowhere, Nobody
Executive Producer
Pier Kids: The Life
Executive Producer
Steve
Editor
Guisado on Sunset
Songs
Selah and the Spades
Director
Solange - When I Get Home
Story
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Editor
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Director
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Sound Designer
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Writer
Guisado on Sunset
Director
Guisado on Sunset
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $7 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Executive Producer
Selah and the Spades
Director of Photography
Guisado on Sunset
2018
2017
Actor
Lost & Found
Actor Tony
The Show About the Show
Actor
The Paris Project
Actor
The Wreck Itself
Director
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $6 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Thanks
Stumped
Executive Producer
The Paris Project
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $5 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
2016
Actor Darren
Women Who Kill
Executive Producer
Ryann Holmes
Screenplay
They Charge for the Sun
Director
Univitellin
Writer
Univitellin
Director
They Charge for the Sun
Director of Photography
And Nothing Happened
Executive Producer
And Nothing Happened
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $4 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $3 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Producer
Univitellin
2015
Director
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director
The Triptych
Thanks
House Date
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $2 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
Editor
The Dig - You And I and You
Director
The Dig - You And I and You
Writer
The Dig - You And I and You
Producer
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
Writer
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
2014
Director
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
Writer
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
Title Designer
Evolution of a Criminal
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are Thus Spiritual Machines: $1 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
Writer
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
2013
2012
Actor
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Director
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Screenplay
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Director
Everything Absolutely
Animation
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Graphic Designer
Sleep
Producer
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Editor
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2011
2010
Actor
How Would You Feel?
Editor
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
Editor
How Would You Feel?
Screenplay
How Would You Feel?
Screenplay
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
Producer
How Would You Feel?
Original Music Composer
How Would You Feel?
Director
How Would You Feel?
Director
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
